The year Donkey Kong Country came out for the SNES I cried on Christmas Day as all my friends fired up their copies, and all I got was "Donkey Kong" for Gameboy, and the Gameboy Player.
Apparently the store had told my stepmother "it's the same thing."
In hindsight, you got the better game.
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All creature will die and all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai.
That's like when I wanted pokemon for christmas but instead got a gameboy and wario world or something.
Though it wasn't really a big thing since my mom is awesome and I ended up getting blue version a few days later.
A big thing that took me years to teach my mom is that, no, you can't just buy me any game. Not every game is good. I don't want to play extreme paintball 3000. I do not want to play the planet of the apes movie game. Just get the game I ask for, and everyone will be happy.
I've been playing Final Fantasy games for 10 years, and I've played almost all of them for some length of time, but I never gave a thought as to what Phoenix Down was. I always called the singular "a Phoenix Down".
Until I read the item description in FFXII, which is something like, "A tuft of soft feathers from a phoenix."
Me: "...Oh my God, of course! Like goosedown, but phoenix down! Phoenix feathers! I am an idiot."
:shock:
I get it now.
I think I realized this when the animation when using pheonix down in FFT or some other game had feathers in it.
For a long time I missed the H in chocobo and thought it was cocobo (which I think I still like better. Also, meseta was metsa to me for a long time.
It was worse in the older FF games, when the limited characters in the item list called the item "FenixDown" or something similar. There's nothing in the word other than the transliteration that makes you think about a Phoenix. I didn't make that association until Final Fantasy VI/III.
That's like when I wanted pokemon for christmas but instead got a gameboy and wario world or something.
Though it wasn't really a big thing since my mom is awesome and I ended up getting blue version a few days later.
A big thing that took me years to teach my mom is that, no, you can't just buy me any game. Not every game is good. I don't want to play extreme paintball 3000. I do not want to play the planet of the apes movie game. Just get the game I ask for, and everyone will be happy.
If you don't like money or gift certificates, it's very hard to buy presents for a geek.
Kinda a cross between 'Engrish' (I hate that term) and spacial nescessity. Strange that they would come up with these names and then not program in the space to display them OR just call the damn things names that would fit.
Kinda a cross between 'Engrish' (I hate that term) and spacial necessity. Strange that they would come up with these names and then not program in the space to display them OR just call the damn things names that would fit.
Well, to be fair, they are phonetically much SMALLER in Japanese than in English. You pretty much have only one character per syllable, whereas English has on average 2 or 3. Thus, smaller words are needed to display the same amount of vocal information. Everything on early games was programmed down to the byte. Things with sprites or textures share space with character information (both the in-game character and the characters used in language). Space constraints were a real problem back in the day, and a lot of clever tricks were used to conserve it.
I never thought about that. I only really got into gaming in the late 90's, so I never realised that they'd have to share bytes over multiple uses. I suppose it's quite a clever way of 'compression' out of need.
A few years ago a bunch of my friends and I were playing through Super Mario Bros and one of my friends says something like "watch out for the duck". There was a few seconds of silence before anyone said "what duck?". He pointed to the Koopa Troopa. "That duck".
I can understand not calling it by its proper Nintendo name... but a duck? His logic was that it had a beak and therefore looked like a duck.
A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds rough. There are similar rules in other languages just because of how awkward it is to say. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
But is it AN herb or A herb?
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A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P
A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
But is it AN herb or A herb?
:rotate:
A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P
Me.
it's a herb dammit, true, but when saying it aloud I will say an herb.
A few years ago a bunch of my friends and I were playing through Super Mario Bros and one of my friends says something like "watch out for the duck". There was a few seconds of silence before anyone said "what duck?". He pointed to the Koopa Troopa. "That duck".
I can understand not calling it by its proper Nintendo name... but a duck? His logic was that it had a beak and therefore looked like a duck.
The faces of the early Koopa Troopas always looked like turkeys to me.
When I was a little kid, I thought the term "Metroid" was a reference to Samus and thought that it was a type of space warrior. I learned about my mistake shortly afterward though.
Wasn't there a retcon that made Metroid the Chozo word for great warrior, and that it became another name for Samus after she blew 'em all up? I seem to remember this from somewhere.
If I was mean I could link the TVTropes page...
But I'm feeling oddly nice right now so I'll just say that yes, they did that.
Yeah, I had a feeling that's where I heard about it. Goddammed crack page :P
In the original Phoenix Down means "Phoenix Tail", フェニックス尾.
I always kind of thought that store was simply selling you a potion NAMED Phoneix Tail rather than actually giving you the tail though.
A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
But is it AN herb or A herb?
:rotate:
A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P
When I was playing Ocarina of Time with a friend of mine, we'd have a lot of these debates. I remember going into Gerudo Valley. At the same time, we both said "I love Gerudo Valley" but he pronounced it Jerudo, as opposed to the hard G sound, and we both glared at eachother and had a 5 minute argument about it. This happened multiple times throughout the course of the game, another example is Hylian, pronounced "Hi-lee-an" or "hill-ian".
It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.
But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.
It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.
But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.
try saying "D Eagle" at the same speed you would normally talk.
for me it basically sounds like 'Deagle' with a tiny little pause inbetween that isn't worth going through the effort to make
dis: that's good, there's a few different ways 'ae' can be pronounced
It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.
But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.
It's an abbreviation dude.
Yes, it sounds idiotic when people say it out loud. But it's Counter-Strike, people used to have to type to communicate in that game.
It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.
But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.
try saying "D Eagle" at the same speed you would normally talk.
for me it basically sounds like 'Deagle' with a tiny little pause inbetween that isn't worth going through the effort to make
dis: that's good, there's a few different ways 'ae' can be pronounced
But I mean, why would you ever say D. Eagle in normal speech? The only people I've ever heard talk like that are Counter-Strike players. It's not like Desert is a long or difficult word.
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In hindsight, you got the better game.
I think it would be Xbizzle TrizzleSitty
Though it wasn't really a big thing since my mom is awesome and I ended up getting blue version a few days later.
A big thing that took me years to teach my mom is that, no, you can't just buy me any game. Not every game is good. I don't want to play extreme paintball 3000. I do not want to play the planet of the apes movie game. Just get the game I ask for, and everyone will be happy.
If you don't like money or gift certificates, it's very hard to buy presents for a geek.
But she got better after I explained things. After that I always got the games I asked for, none more.
But "an snes"? Fuck that. It's "an Ess En Ee Ess" or "a snes".
Gah!
What the hell is a Drug spear?
For the longest time, I called the Chaos Emeralds
"ca-ose" (ca as in cat)
instead of
"K-os"
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Why would you say "an" if the next word starts with a consonant anyway?
Uh.. this is a good point sir.
At least "an snes" is still fucking retarded.
Oh my god
was his name fidel?
The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds rough. There are similar rules in other languages just because of how awkward it is to say. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.
But is it AN herb or A herb?
:rotate:
A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P
Me.
it's a herb dammit, true, but when saying it aloud I will say an herb.
Because stressing the H makes you sound douchy.
The faces of the early Koopa Troopas always looked like turkeys to me.
Yeah, I had a feeling that's where I heard about it. Goddammed crack page :P
I always kind of thought that store was simply selling you a potion NAMED Phoneix Tail rather than actually giving you the tail though.
Smart people?
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But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.
Just thinking about that myself.
Also who pronounces 'Aeris' like 'Heiress?'
Everyone?
try saying "D Eagle" at the same speed you would normally talk.
for me it basically sounds like 'Deagle' with a tiny little pause inbetween that isn't worth going through the effort to make
dis: that's good, there's a few different ways 'ae' can be pronounced
It's an abbreviation dude.
Yes, it sounds idiotic when people say it out loud. But it's Counter-Strike, people used to have to type to communicate in that game.
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But then Advent Children came out and pretty much settled it.
I also always thought mako was may-ko but apparently it's mah-ko. Oh, and Nye-bel-heim instead of Nee-bel-heim.
What else...
Oh yeah, how are you supposed to pronounce Celes? And is it Say-bin or Sah-bin?
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
But I mean, why would you ever say D. Eagle in normal speech? The only people I've ever heard talk like that are Counter-Strike players. It's not like Desert is a long or difficult word.
Some of my friends persist in saying zay-a-lot. They just prefer how that sounds.
P.S. If anyone ever changes Terra to Tina, blood will be spilled.